Worth a glance: Using eye movements to investigate the cognitive neuroscience of memory.
Results of several investigations indicate that eye movements can reveal memory for elements of previous experience. These effects of memory on eye movement behavior can emerge very rapidly, changing the efficiency and even the nature of visual processing without appealing to verbal reports and with...
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| author | Deborah E Hannula Robert R Althoff David E Warren Lily Riggs Lily Riggs Neal J Cohen Jennifer D Ryan Jennifer D Ryan Jennifer D Ryan |
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| description | Results of several investigations indicate that eye movements can reveal memory for elements of previous experience. These effects of memory on eye movement behavior can emerge very rapidly, changing the efficiency and even the nature of visual processing without appealing to verbal reports and without requiring conscious recollection. This aspect of eye-movement based memory investigations is particularly useful when eye movement methods are used with special populations (e.g., young children, elderly individuals, and patients with severe amnesia), and also permits use of comparable paradigms in animals and humans, helping to bridge different memory literatures and permitting cross-species generalizations. Unique characteristics of eye movement methods have produced findings that challenge long-held views about the nature of memory, its organization in the brain, and its failures in special populations. Recently, eye movement methods have been successfully combined with neuroimaging techniques such as fMRI, single-unit recording, and MEG, permitting more sophisticated investigations of memory. Ultimately, combined use of eye-tracking with neuropsychological and neuroimaging methods promises to provide a more comprehensive account of brain-behavior relationships and adheres to the “converging evidence” approach to cognitive neuroscience. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e43670f38cb04d86b8d1d75ccc4a9e9f2022-12-22T00:13:29ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Human Neuroscience1662-51612010-10-01410.3389/fnhum.2010.001661895Worth a glance: Using eye movements to investigate the cognitive neuroscience of memory.Deborah E Hannula0Robert R Althoff1David E Warren2Lily Riggs3Lily Riggs4Neal J Cohen5Jennifer D Ryan6Jennifer D Ryan7Jennifer D Ryan8University of WisconsinUniversity of VermontUniversity of IowaBaycrestUniversity of TorontoUniversity of IllinoisBaycrestUniversity of TorontoUniversity of TorontoResults of several investigations indicate that eye movements can reveal memory for elements of previous experience. These effects of memory on eye movement behavior can emerge very rapidly, changing the efficiency and even the nature of visual processing without appealing to verbal reports and without requiring conscious recollection. This aspect of eye-movement based memory investigations is particularly useful when eye movement methods are used with special populations (e.g., young children, elderly individuals, and patients with severe amnesia), and also permits use of comparable paradigms in animals and humans, helping to bridge different memory literatures and permitting cross-species generalizations. Unique characteristics of eye movement methods have produced findings that challenge long-held views about the nature of memory, its organization in the brain, and its failures in special populations. Recently, eye movement methods have been successfully combined with neuroimaging techniques such as fMRI, single-unit recording, and MEG, permitting more sophisticated investigations of memory. Ultimately, combined use of eye-tracking with neuropsychological and neuroimaging methods promises to provide a more comprehensive account of brain-behavior relationships and adheres to the “converging evidence” approach to cognitive neuroscience.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2010.00166/fullAmnesiaEye MovementsHippocampusMemoryfMRIMEG |
| spellingShingle | Deborah E Hannula Robert R Althoff David E Warren Lily Riggs Lily Riggs Neal J Cohen Jennifer D Ryan Jennifer D Ryan Jennifer D Ryan Worth a glance: Using eye movements to investigate the cognitive neuroscience of memory. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Amnesia Eye Movements Hippocampus Memory fMRI MEG |
| title | Worth a glance: Using eye movements to investigate the cognitive neuroscience of memory. |
| title_full | Worth a glance: Using eye movements to investigate the cognitive neuroscience of memory. |
| title_fullStr | Worth a glance: Using eye movements to investigate the cognitive neuroscience of memory. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Worth a glance: Using eye movements to investigate the cognitive neuroscience of memory. |
| title_short | Worth a glance: Using eye movements to investigate the cognitive neuroscience of memory. |
| title_sort | worth a glance using eye movements to investigate the cognitive neuroscience of memory |
| topic | Amnesia Eye Movements Hippocampus Memory fMRI MEG |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2010.00166/full |
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